Fact and Fancy in the Vinland Sagas
Title | Fact and Fancy in the Vinland Sagas PDF eBook |
Author | Erik Wahlgren |
Publisher | |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | America |
ISBN |
Fact and Fancy in the Vinland Sagas
Title | Fact and Fancy in the Vinland Sagas PDF eBook |
Author | Erik Wahlgren |
Publisher | |
Pages | 62 |
Release | 196? |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Year 1000
Title | The Year 1000 PDF eBook |
Author | Valerie Hansen |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2021-04-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501194119 |
The World in the Year 1000 -- Go West, Young Viking -- The Pan-American Highways of 1000 -- European Slaves -- The World's Richest Man -- Central Asia Splits in Two -- Surprising Journeys -- The Most Globalized Place on Earth.
Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature
Title | Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Larissa Tracy |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1843843935 |
A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality.
Inconstant Companions
Title | Inconstant Companions PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald J. Mason |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2006-11-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0817315330 |
Publisher description
Viking America
Title | Viking America PDF eBook |
Author | Geraldine Barnes |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780859916080 |
Viking America examined through the writing and rewriting of the Vinland story from the middle ages to the twentieth century. The accounts in the Vinland sagas of the great voyages to the northeast coast of America in the early years of the eleventh century have often been obscured by detailed argument over the physical identity of the West Atlantic landwhich its Scandinavian discoverers named Vinland. Geraldine Barnes leaves archaeological evidence aside and returns to the Old Norse narratives, Groenlendinga saga (Saga of Greenlanders) and Eiriks saga rauda(Saga of Eric the Red), in her study of the writing and rewriting of the Vinland story from the middle ages to the late twentieth century. She sets the sagas in the context of Iceland's transition from paganism to Christianity; later chapters explore the Vinland story in relation to issues of regional pride and national myths of foundation in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, to the ethos of popular imperialism during the same periodin English literature, and, in the late twentieth century, to postcolonial concerns. GERALDINE BARNES is associate professor of English, University of Sydney.
The Cold Counsel
Title | The Cold Counsel PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah M. Anderson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2013-05-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1134821387 |
Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family structure and ideology in medieval Iceland.